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Civil War Generals, c. 1865 Generally regarded as the world's first commercially successful photojournalist, Matthew Brady was also one of the medium's most accomplished manipulators. In this group portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman and his top officers, he added one figure. For the record, the men are, standing, from left: Oliver Otis Howard, William Babcock Hazen, Jefferson Columbus Davis and Joseph Anthony Mower; seated, from left: John Alexander Logan, Sherman, Henry Warner Slocum and Francis P. Blair. The Original Image: Brady added Blair at the far right. One of Sherman's corps commanders in the critical final offensive in Georgia, Blair...

Having hit McCain on the economy last week, the DNC rolls out an ad today with some arresting images from Iraq going after him for his "100 years" comment and tying him to Bush. It will air this week on cable channels. Howard Dean offered the preview on "Meet the Press" and laid down a pre-emptive response to the McCain/GOP response that McCain was alluding to a peaceful U.S. presence in the country a la South Korea or post-WW II Germany : “Now, does anyone think who's watching this show that if you keep our troops in Iraq for 100...

I'd like to propose to all you MOONBATS out there the following scenario: It's the 1940's. You're alive, and politically aware. Like any good American, you support our effort in the Second World War. Now, imagine the following, and how you'd feel about these imaginary events if they happened: In 1942, many Republicans question the wisdom of going to war against Germany. "After all," they say, "Germany had nothing to do with Pearl Harbor." In 1943, Republicans complain about the high casualties -- not in the thousands, but in the millions -- and say we should end the war immediately....

SPRINGFIELD -- It's not a threat to sue. Yet. The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a broad inquiry into how Illinois is enforcing a new state law designed to keep picketers affiliated with a radical Kansas church from disrupting military funerals. The ACLU has sent Freedom of Information Act requests to the offices of Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn and several suburban and Downstate mayors and police chiefs to see how members of Westboro Baptist Church were dealt with and whether their free-speech rights were infringed upon. In Illinois in the last five months, church members have shown up at...

It's with mixed feelings that I hear Jane Fonda is going on the road again, as she did over 30 years ago to oppose the U.S. defense of South Vietnam's freedom, this time to stir up opposition to the U.S. mission to ensure democracy in Iraq. As she has, also, done nothing to protest the slaughters in Cambodia, Rwanda or Darfur, I am left wondering what she has against people of color in underdeveloped countries. Is it too much to hope that Jane Fonda will travel to Baghdad, as she did to Hanoi, to offer to do propaganda radio broadcasts...

Like millions of Americans, I heaved a sigh of relief upon reading that Jane Fonda finally is going to speak out against the war in Iraq. Where has she been? On book tour promoting her autobiography-in-progress, "My Life So Far." We might have guessed a real-time sequel was in the offing. Fonda says that, having met some veterans and their families while on tour, she's decided to break her silence. "I've decided I'm coming out," she told an audience in Santa Fe, N.M. "I have not taken a stand on any war since Vietnam. I carry a lot of baggage...